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Thcfe herbes do floure in Iuly and Auguft. 
*[ The Names. 
Plaifter Clauer is called by the gcnerall name,Meli/otM,offomc,TrjfJiiim odoratim-.xex there is 
another fvveet Trc foile.as hath been declared. Some pall it 'irtfobum Eq^nm^nd ‘dwallitiam or 
Horfe-Trefoile,by reafonit is good fodder for horfeSjWhodq grcediJy feqd rhepori:Jil;(.(vife Tri 
folium Vr(imm , or Beares Trefoile : of FuchJjm^S qxifragt luted, and Sepifla Caniphrja.: of Cato Sena. 
Campana, which moftdoname Corona Reria in high'Dutch, t f C tl t! f 1| £t f r] t o i' tl:t , J\ o- 
manes and Hetrurians, T rilolo, as Matthlolw tvritctn /in English, Melllor, and'PJamer Clauer 'in 
Yorkefhire, Harts-Clauer. ’’ " " ’’ 1 
TlieT emperature. 
Melilote, faith hath more plenty of hot fubftance than cold (that tS.tofiyjiQt.acd dry in ' 
the firft degree) it bath alfo a certaine binding qualitie, befides a waftieg-aed .ripening facultie. 
Dtofcorides fhew’eth, that Melilote is ofabindingand mollifying qualitie, but the rnollifyin°- qua- 
litie is not proper vnto it, but in as much as it wafkth away, and digefteth humors fathered m hot 
fwellings,or otherwife : for fo far doth it mollifie or fupple that thing which is -hard, which is not 
properly called mollifying, but digefting and wafting away by vapors r which kinde of quality the 
Grecians call ' J 
«[l TheVertnes. 
Melilote boiled in fweet wine vntill it be foft,if you adde thereto the yolke of a roftedegse the 
mealeof Fenegreeke and Linefeed, the roots of Marfh Mallowes and hogs greaceftamped toge- 
ther, and vfed as a pultis or cataplafma, plaifterwife, doth affwage and foften all manner of fvvel- 
lings,efpecially aoout the matrix, fundament and genitories 4 being applied vnto thofe places hot 
With the juice hereof, oile, wax, rofen and turpentine, is made amoft foueraigne healin^ and 
drawing emplafter, called Melilote plaifter, retaining both the coloured fauourof thehedx- be- 
ing artificially made by a skilfull Surgion. ' 1 
The herbeboiled in wine and drunke prouoketh vrine, breaketh the ftone, and affwa^eth the 
paine of the kidnies, bladder and belly, and ripeneth flegmp, and carffeth it tobeeafilycaft forth 
The juice thereof dropped into the ejes cleereth the fight, confun1Mi,diffolueth, and cleane 
taketh away the wcb,pearle, and fpot in the eies. 
Melilote alone with water healeth Recentcs melicendes,a kinde of wenso; rather apoflems con- 
teyning matter like honey, and alfo the running vlcers of the head, if it be laid to with chalke.wine 
and galls. 
It likewife mitigateth the paine of the eares, if the juice be dropped therein mixed with a little 
wrne and taketh away the paine of the head,which the Greekescalf ^W*,,efpecially if the head 
fc t bat ued therewitb^and a little vineger and oile of Rofes mixed amongft it. 
f C hap. 5 c 6. Of certaine other Trefoiles. 
$ “TT* Hofc Trefoiles being omitted by our Author, I haue thought good to put into a chapter 
by themfelues, though they haue little affinity with one another, the two laft excepted. 
7 he Defer if ion. 
1 T“ C ^ lofe rc f r > kaIkes > a nd manner of growing is like the Medicke or fnaile 
d rC'Oiles formerly deferibedithe leaues are hairie ; the floures yellow'and fmall rafter 
which follow crooked flat cods, of an indifferent bredth,whercin is contained feeds made after the 
falhron of little krdnres ; thrs the Italians, according to Label, call Lunanaradiata-in^Hf.Lud^ 
it is called Mcdicd (yisalteralunatn. ' J 
V 1 • T1 u C XOO r? ( tllis is l0n ^ and thicke = c °r’«ed with a yellowifh rinde,and hauing a white fweet 
pith in the mfide couered with a bairrneffe on the top, and fending forth fundry fibres : from this 
rr e vp many wea.;e long foot- ftalkes, whereon grow leaues fet together by threes, long, narrow, 
fm oth, lightly mckt on the edges : amongft thefe rifes vp commonly one ftalke (yet fometimes 
rwojfmooth and naked three or foure inches long; on the top' thereof grow fplke fafhion.S.or ten 
pretty large light purple floures, each of them being fet in a cup diuide'd into s. parts. This growes 
vpon diners parts of the Alpesrand Pena inhis Mens RaUus fet it forth bv the name of Trifolttm 
m^ufitfolmmaOlfinum.Bauhwus faith, the root hereof rafts like Liquorice, wherefore it may be cab 
ctr 1% & ; and I,e recek,ed « ^ Spaihe bv the name of 
c! )Cjrht^a.l\i calls it in Ills Vrodromusfrtfolium x^lftnum floremagno radkedulct. ' " 
This 
